How-To: Vintage-Inspired Flower Earrings
Capture that classic Old Hollywood look with a pair of vintage-inspired flower earrings!
Year: 2013
Radiophonic Workshop on the Web
Bringing their Radiophonic Workshop to the web, the BBC attempt to recreate their classic Wobbulator and Ring Modulator sounds online, using JavaScript and HTML5.
Amanda Ghassaei’s Glitchbox
Amanda Ghassaei built this fun Arduino-powered noisemaker: The glitchbox is a sample-based drum machine used for live audio or MIDI sequencing. The buttons on the front of the instrument play back nine audio samples stored in its memory. A switch on top records and loops sequences of these samples. Once a sequence is recorded, additional […]
600 Monsters Strong
600 Monsters Strong is an organization that recently formed for the purpose of, “Bringing friendly handcrafted monsters to children in need worldwide.”
Tasty Tetris Ice Cubes
An oldie but goodie, Instructables user Tetranitrate helps you add a little classic video game goodness to your cup with his Tetris Ice Cubes tutorial. In a nutshell, you make little wooden blocks, round out the edges, glue them into signature Tetris shapes, glue them in place in a tray, coat with olive oil, mix […]
Best of 2012: Make: Projects
2012 was a great year for Make: Projects, our living library of projects. Here are some of our favorites from the past 12 months.
Tool Review: Rio Grande Electroplating Chems
This weekend, my buddy Jon came over, and we used my garage chem-lab to silver-plate some brass hinge leaves for some fancy jewelry boxes he’s making. I had never electroplated anything before, and have been curious about the process since my undergraduate days. My impression, based on my survey courses, was that electroplating is messy and dangerous—one of those jobs it’s usually best to contract out to a speciality shop. Jon came prepared with a bucketful of supplies. He had the parts themselves, a benchtop power supply, a strip of stainless steel to serve as an anode, cotton plating pen tips, a strip of 0.999 silver to wrap around the pen tip and connect it to the PSU probe, copper wire to support and ground the parts during the plating operations, and three bottles of MIDAS-brand electroplating chemicals. (MIDAS, for the record, is Rio Grande’s house electroplating products brand.)
